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FEATURES

The Home Advantage
An innovative medical practice strives to keep elderly patients out of the hospital through regular home visits from a nurse practitioner and a geriatrician.

Seeing Inside the Body
Technology that captures interior views of the body requires the expertise of highly skilled imaging science experts.

New Career Options Help Those with Disabilities
A new breed of specialists helps those with chronic mental and physical disabilities function within their communities.

Skyrocketing Opportunities
Physician assistants are increasingly in demand
as the primary physician shortage grows.

Eyeing the Future
Ophthalmology assistants play key roles in preventing and testing for eye disease.

Open Wide
Dental assistants and dental hygienists are in great demand. Both are among the fastest growing occupations in the U.S.

Bringing Drugs to Market
In an industry where time can translate into big financial gains, clinical trial specialists know how to move new therapies from the lab to the marketplace more effectively.

A Career on the Move
Aging baby boomers — many lifelong fitness and sports enthusiasts — are among those keeping physical therapists very busy.

Learning to Relieve Pain
Orofacial pain specialists get to the root of the problem.

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3
Medical laboratory scientists work behind the scenes to furnish data critical for a diagnosis.

Nursing Along a Second Career
This part-time BSN program can be completed in 30 months on Thursday evenings and Saturdays.

Dentistry Beyond the Office
Disasters, criminal investigations and dental malpractice allegations all call for the expertise of dentists trained in forensics

In the Big Business of Medicine
An MD-PhD can be great preparation for a job in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

When Engineering & Medicine Marry
Biomedical engineering is number one on The New York Times 2011 “Top 10 List: Where the Jobs Are.”

DEPARTMENTS

Amazing Science
New Insights into TB
Novel Approach to TB Treatment.
The Eyes Have It
How Smart is Your Mouthwash?
Can What’s in Spit Prevent HIV
Vital Human Genetic Structures Identified
The Science of Lyme Disease
Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Repair
Hypertension Treatment and Longevity
Responding to Potential Chemical Warfare
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease
Help for Japanese Children
Studying Breast Cancer in African-American Women
Major Award Times Two
Transfusion After Surgery

A Day in the Life of Joseph Benevenia
This busy orthopaedic surgeon — a regular on both national and NY metro area Top Docs lists — specializes in treating bone, joint and soft tissue tumors.

Five Questions
Talking with medical anthropologist Sabrina Chase about her recently published book.

Update
News from all the campuses.

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Amazing Science

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SCIENCE IS MOVING AHEAD AT INCREDIBLE SPEED. Technology has changed the playing field in ways we could not have envisioned 10 years back. As science becomes more complex, the need for collaboration, even across the globe, becomes more important and it becomes harder for the solitary investigator to succeed.
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The old boundaries separating academia from the world of industry and business are fading away. For research devoted to diagnosing, preventing and curing disease, partnerships with industry, as well as with our patients, is a crucial component of positive outcomes. Our patients and their communities help identify needs; working closely with industry helps researchers translate their discoveries into viable, marketable solutions to those needs.

At the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, science is not just alive and well, but truly amazing. The researchers featured here, along with their colleagues throughout UMDNJ, are contributing every day to the body of scientific knowledge with the promise of improving the quality of life for our patients and patients everywhere.